Washington Notebook: Industry tries to drive stake through scan-all law

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson last month formally notified Congress that his department will exercise its right to extend for another two years the deadline to scan all inbound ocean containers for nuclear weapons or other terror-related contraband at foreign ports, and business groups are now rising up to kill the mandate altogether. The moves come as some lawmakers seek to revive a law that was left for dead because most House and Senate members, realizing their vote was an overreaction, haven’t pressed the Department of Homeland Security to meet the timetable for x-raying the contents of U.S.-bound containers. On Monday, 70 trade associations from a cross-section of industries penned a letter to Johnson and...